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WebCT for the online students & where I post grades. (When you first run WebCT on your computer, be certain to check the box that trusts all WebCT content!!!)
Banner for accessing your official grades.
Digital Measures (faculty information systems)    
Netstorage (otherwise known as the O drive), where I may post various items of interest.    

Mgt 418 Management Information Systems

The textbook for  Spring 2010 is : "Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm", 9th edition, by Kenneth & Jane Laudon, ISBN: 0131538411.  The Laudon web site has good info.    If you think the bookstore charges too much, you can get it at Amazon or at Half.com for much less, but it may be softbound and monochrome (same info, just the European edition).  Because the bookstore sells so few of the books, they do not keep enough in stock for all students, so if you don't like buying online, go to the bookstore early or get one from a previous student.  I also have some books on reserve in the library that you can check out. 

If you are an online student, I strongly recommend you become familiar with WebCT, because there are no in-class meetings, all communications are performed via WebCT (or a phone call or an office visit).  Tutorials on various aspects of WebCT are available from the Instructional Media Center.  The online section of this class can be accessed here.

 Miscellaneous class information contains various items of interest. 
 

  Research
 -- My area of research is Operations Research (OR), which utilizes mathematical descriptions to find optimal or near-optimal solutions to management problems which may or may not be stochastic (i.e. contain some risk).  Examples include network routing, inventory management, product mix, investing, scheduling and many more -- Management Science 431 at MWSU is mostly OR! 

-- CTAP Example algorithm for 4 tasks assigned to 3 processors and the Capacitated Task Allocation Problem Set used in Lewis and Kochenberger's research on modifying Griffith and Stewart's Method of Approximation Programming for binary quadratic programs.

-- Linear Ordering of web pages based on path traversals stored in server logs.

 -- Data Files for the Linear Ordering Problem, Set Partitioning Problem, Sailor Assignment Problem as well as links to tabu search programs and problem-set creation code.

Hobbies
I often update my Photography page to highlight pictures I have recently taken.
Caneel Bay, USVI

Astrophotography using 80mm Enhanced Dispersion optics refractor.
  The Prius page!  Unfortunately, my gas mileage has dropped about 10% due to the Missouri legislature's mandate to use a blend of 10% ethanol in all Missouri gas stations.  Ethanol burns cleaner, but is less fuel-efficient.  The Prius has practically no exhaust emissions using regular gas, so using an ethanol blend that lowers gas mileage ends up costing me more with no benefit to the environment!  Advocates of bio-fuels say ethanol should not decrease gas mileage, but "should not" also means "may in fact" (decrease gas mileage), as noted in the previous article and this discussion.   In addition, the energy required to actually create and deliver the ethanol is more than the energy needed to create gasoline.  The true energy independent solution is hydrogen fuel cells using our water infrastructure and locally produced hydrogen.

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key words:  Optimization, Guided Design Search, Sailor Assignment, Operations Research, tabu search, metaheuristic, COMPASS, Network design, Experimental design, Taguchi methods, management science, linear ordering